Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels

Claire Chambers is Senior Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of York, UK, where she teaches modern Anglophone writing from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Her previous books are British Muslim Fictions, Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora, Britain Through Muslim Eyes, and Rivers of Ink.

• 1. ‘Touch Me, Baby’: Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun.- 2. ‘I Wanted a Human Touch’: Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album.- 3. Fiction of Olfaction: Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane.- 4. Taste the Difference: Leila Aboulela, Yasmin Crowther, and Robin Yassin-Kassab.- 5. Sound and Fury: Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire.- 6. The Doors of Posthuman Sensory Perception in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.